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China begins to push for integration of New and Old Media

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chinaMuch has been made of the decline of the print medium and the rise of new media. Some have said they are mutually exclusive.

But a two-day forum that started on Thursday in Kunming, capital of Yunnan Province in Southwest China, offered a clue that the two can indeed integrate and even complement each other.

China may be a few steps ahead of us as more and more users in Asia seem to have a growing trust in blogs, and newsrooms that are willing to adapt more quickly to new media tools like blogging. Especially with a broader cross section of mainstream society using blogging tools than in the United States.

Source: China Daily

Originally posted on December 2, 2006 @ 9:17 am

BBC To Run Blogging Workshop

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bbc onlineThe BBC is to run a free blogging workshop for members of the public as part of its Manchester blogging project.BBC Radio Manchester’s Richard Fair and Robin Hamman, from BBC’s Blog Network, will run the workshop.

The Manchester Blogging Project has been an experiment to see how the BBC might be able to help people create and share content online, initiate conversations with the people creating content and see what they can do to help highlight that content by linking to it or getting that content on air.

Originally posted on December 1, 2006 @ 3:23 pm

New Media Broadens International Reach Into Palestine

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palestine photographerNew media continues to expand its reach and their is continued hope that new media tools and blogging could bring rise to new levels of good reporting in war torn and chaotic regions of the world.

Recently bloggers and journalists in Palestine launched a New Media training organization with the goal of developing a new generation of journalists without borders in Palestine.

The creation of the new non-profit “Journalism Without Borders” (translated from Arabic) was announced during a ceremony held in Hebron, Palestine, on November 21. The new body plans to start its operations in January 2007.

The goals of the organization are to create a new generation of skilled journalists, to monitor press freedom violations, to advocate the reform of Palestinian media laws, to improve the journalist-citizen relationship and to organize journalist exchange programs.

Source: International Journalist Network

Originally posted on December 2, 2006 @ 9:24 am

Inside Blogging As A Financial Investment

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I’ve had a great opportunity to be around a lot of blog sales dating back to The Blog Herald sale in February of this year. I’ve had a chance to see some blogs sell for WAY over there value and some sell for WAY under there value.

There is an approach that must be taken to when analyzing blogs that are for sale. There is some great reasons for buying an establish industry blog, and there are some strong reasons not to. Understanding the valuation of a blog is important before deciding to buy it. Let’s take The Blog Herald, for example.

When we purchased it, it was a Pagerank 7, the industry’s leading authority, and it was a great time for the entire industry. In reality no matter what we did advertising revenue were going to increase, and the only thing we needed to do was continue the pace and power of the former author. With 2-3 people jumping in that shouldn’t be such a problem. Things to consider when buying are blog are really simple.

1. Is the investment something you can recoup in less than 3 years ?
Any blog investment should be something you can realistically recoup on your own, outside of any reliance on partnerships. If you can devote that amount of time then go for it. Otherwise think twice about any blog investment even the small ones.

2. Is the investment worth your time?
Are you really passionate about the subject matter of the website, or blog? If so you should jump in full bore and go for it. You have nothing to lose but your time and money. And you have lots to gain.

3. Will it increase your value in the industry or decrease i ?
With any blog purchase you can find yourself at a complete loss if you fall on your face and ‘ruin’ a blog. Especially a blog of some authority. However if you build that blog to a higher status level you can increase your status in the blogosphere.

Buying a blog is a difficult decision. They don’t maintain themselves. Remember it’s work. Don’t forget that. Any thing worth doing is worth doing right.

Originally posted on December 1, 2006 @ 2:04 pm